tagged w/ Women's Rights
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It's pure insanity if the Republican party thinks they can actually win a national election after shamelessly waging war against women (50% of voters) on multiple fronts...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=32012It's pure insanity if the Republican party thinks they can actually win a... more
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Beyond the Grave, Breitbart's still a Hack...
Let’s hop in our time machine and head back to 1990, where a young Barack Obama was serving as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He spoke before a group of protesters demonstrating against the school’s lack of racial and gender equality. He also spoke in support of a man named Derrick Bell...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=31974Beyond the Grave, Breitbart's still a Hack...
Let’s hop in our time... more
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On Thursday, the Georgia House of Representatives debated HB 954, which if enacted would reduce the window of time for women to be able to have an abortion from 26 weeks to 20 weeks. During the debate on the floor, Republican Rep. Terry England took his turn and in a southern drawl, compared women to cows and pigs.
“Life gives us many experiences. It give us the experience- or I’ve had the experience of delivering calves dead and alive, delivering pigs dead and alive, and I want to tell you, Rep. McCall, Rep. Roberts, all of us, Rep. Anderson, that have done that, Rep. Black, that have done that, it breaks our hearts to see those animals not make it. Ya know a few years ago, I had a young man come to me in our store, and it was when we were debating- talking about dog and hog hunting I believe- and at that point there was some language inserted in there that dealt with chicken fighting. And young man called me to the side and said ‘I want to tell you something.’ And y’all, this is salt of the earth people I’m talking about. Someone I would never have expected in 100 years to tell me what he told me that day. ‘Mr Terry, I want to tell you something. Tell those folks down there that when they stop killing babies, I’ll give them every chicken I’ve got.’”On Thursday, the Georgia House of Representatives debated HB 954, which if enacted... more
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Ladies and Gents: It's time to tap your foot, learn some history and get Gaga over Women's Rights!
Bad Romance: Women’s Suffrage is a parody music video paying homage to Alice Paul and the generations of brave women who joined together in the fight to pass the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote in 1920.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=31936Ladies and Gents: It's time to tap your foot, learn some history and get Gaga... more
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On International Women’s Day, we have a lot to celebrate. Rarely are feminist victories recognized by the mainstream media, or even for that matter, by our very own women’s movementsOn International Women’s Day, we have a lot to celebrate. Rarely are feminist... more
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The video speaks to the insanity that exists when people vote against their own self-interests. Forget about birth control! It’s too bad that these young girls don’t realize that a President Santorum would have them ignorant through home schooling, barefoot, and pregnant.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=31899The video speaks to the insanity that exists when people vote against their own... more
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"Afghanistan's top religious council has said women should not mix with men in school, work or other aspects of daily life. The Ulema Council has also said that women should not travel without a male relative. The BBC's Orla Guerin has been hearing reaction to the ruling from people in Kabul.
The comments by senior clerics - which have been welcomed by President Hamid Karzai - were included in a statement outlining the rights and duties of women under Islam.
Human Rights Watch says it is worrying that the Ulema Council has issued this statement, and that President Karzai has backed it.
The council says its comments are a request and a reminder, not an instruction. But critics say the statement is an echo of the Taliban.
Leading woman MP Fawzia Koofi - who survived a Taliban ambush two years ago - has no doubt what the statement means.
"I think it's the beginning of taking women back to the dark period of the Taliban," she told the BBC.
"It's dangerous. It's an alarm for women in Afghanistan"."Afghanistan's top religious council has said women should not mix with men... more
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The exodus of advertisers from Rush Limbaugh following his hateful misogynous remarks, spearheading the Republican War on Women, has been in the news for several days. Limbarf has shrugged it off, claiming to have advertisers waiting in the wings to take their place. He did. In a perfect example of Republican family values, the company he picked could not be a bigger insult to women.The exodus of advertisers from Rush Limbaugh following his hateful misogynous remarks,... more
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Bad Romance: Women's Suffrage is a parody music video paying homage to Alice Paul and the generations of brave women who joined together in the fight to pass the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote in 1920: http://youtu.be/IYQhRCs9IHMBad Romance: Women's Suffrage is a parody music video paying homage to Alice Paul... more
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– Sometimes, it piles up. Sometimes women get tired. Tired of fighting. Tired of bleeding.
I heard him call my name.. it whispered with each wave that crashed to the pier, cool on my feet that dangled above the water. I needed this solitude. I needed to regroup to get back in the game.– Sometimes, it piles up. Sometimes women get tired. Tired of fighting. Tired of... more
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The controversy involving the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, and their attempt to politicize their charity, making it a Republican tool to wield against women, has barely faded from the news. However Karen Handel, failed Republican candidate for the Georgia state house, and Sarah Palin’s Teabagger protégé, is already telling lies and spinning the controversy to make it appear that they are the victims of Planned Parenthood, not the other way around that really happened.The controversy involving the Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation, and their... more
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I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that the de facto head of the Republican Party,Rush Limbaugh, has gone off the deep end in his vile attacks against Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law student, whom Republicans prevented from testifying to a hearing on birth control. Democrats have responded appropriately, condemning his remarks. Some Republicans have criticized him in the vaguest possible terms, but none have actually condemned his remarks. In my opinion, there is only one viable alternative for responding to Rush.I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that the de facto head of the Republican... more
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By Stephen C. Webster
Friday, March 2, 2012 9:44 EST
At a recent rally against a so-called “personhood” bill currently favored by Oklahoma lawmakers, state senator Judy McIntyre (D) was photographed holding a sign that read: “IF I WANTED THE GOVERNMENT IN MY WOMB, I’D FUCK A SENATOR.”
Explaining to a local reporter that she’d just borrowed the sign from a protester, she remarked: “I was like, I’ve got to have a picture of it.”
“I thought if my 87-year-old mother sees this, I’m going to get hell this weekend, but it was too late,” McIntyre added, according to NewsOK.com.
The protest, held Wednesday at the University of Oklahoma, took issue with a so-called “personhood” bill that would define human life as beginning at conception, effectively banning all abortions.
The Oklahoma State Medical Association is opposed to the bill because it may jeopardize the practice of reproductive medicine and criminalize acts that might harm an embryo, potentially sparking criminal investigations of women who miscarry. The bill was overwhelmingly approved by the state Senate last month, and a vote in the lower chamber is expected soon. It is not clear if the governor will sign it into law.
McIntyre acknowledged that some in Oklahoma, which is overwhelmingly Christian, may find her sign’s language offensive, but she wasn’t much concerned about them.
“I would hope they would have that same passion about how offensive it is for the Republican Party of Oklahoma to ramrod, because they have the votes to do so, bills that are offensive to women and take away the rights of women,” she reportedly said.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/02/oklahoma-state-senators-sign-if-i-wanted-the-government-in-my-womb-id-fck-a-senator/
This video is from NewsOK.com, published Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012.
"Perhaps the sign should have read 'Republican Senator'???By Stephen C. Webster
Friday, March 2, 2012 9:44 EST
At a recent rally against a... more
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The Blunt Amendment was the most extreme attempt yet, at the federal level, by the Republican Party to deprive women of birth control and other health care services. Republicans are doing their level vest to return women to the status of chattel, just like they held in the 19th century. Fortunately Senate Democrats defeated the Blunt Amendment yesterday morning, but there were defections.The Blunt Amendment was the most extreme attempt yet, at the federal level, by the... more
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After decades of producing sharply worded critiques of the former regime, Om Zied isn't quieting down in the new Tunisia, or even dulling her verbal blade.
"Cavemen" is the word she used on the radio a couple of months ago to describe the ultra-conservative Salafists at the University of Manouba, in a suburb of Tunis. Salafists were pressuring administrators to permit women to wear the niqab, a full face veil, to classes.
During the same radio interview the self-avowed secularist argued that few Islamists had ever tried to defend the rights of veiled women under the regime of the ousted president, Ben Ali.
She used a pen name for protection, but her identity was never really shielded from the government, which targeted her with continual intimidation and harassment.
Om Zied is how she continues to be known here, although the need to fear official reprisal is gone and she can use her real name now: Neziha Rajba.
Today she stands out as visionary who always somehow believed that Jan. 13, 2011, would someday come.
http://www.womensenews.org/story/the-world/120228/tunisias-om-zied-stays-sharp-power-shiftsAfter decades of producing sharply worded critiques of the former regime, Om Zied... more
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If you are a woman worried about conservatives legislating your rights, you need to read my article!If you are a woman worried about conservatives legislating your rights, you need to... more
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By David Edwards
Monday, February 27, 2012 16:19 EST
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) has a simple solution for women who work for religious institutions that refuse to cover birth control: Find a new job.
During a call-in show on C-SPAN Monday morning, a woman named Doris from Osawatomie, Kansas told Brownback that she was worried that he wanted to turn back the clock on women’s rights.
“No, goodness,” Brownback replied. “That’s not true.”
“I am concerned that — along with lots of other red states — Gov. Brownback feels that we should be the reddest state in the country,” Doris explained. “Women’s rights are being trampled. He was talking about what President Obama is requiring insurance companies to do, to cover birth control. You know you are taking away the individual woman’s right to decide if they need birth control.”
“Ninety-eight percent of women have used birth control in their lives,” she added. “Now, we can pay for vasectomies, we can pay for Viagra, but we cannot pay for birth control for women? I think it’s a shame.”
Brownback immediately disagreed.
“What the president basically said is if you are church that does not believe in this — and the Catholic Church has problems with, the official Catholic Church, amongst other institutions, have problems with paying for contraceptives,” the Kansas governor explained. “You have a number of religious groups who saying, ‘We don’t want to pay for so-called abortifacients, these have morning after pill-type effects. And this is against our religious beliefs.’ And the president was saying, ‘You got to pay for it.’ And they were saying, ‘This is against our view life is sacred.’”
“That’s not denying women’s rights,” he insisted. “If a woman then wants birth control, go work somewhere else.”
A coalition of rights groups including Planned Parenthood, MainStream Coalition and the American Civil Liberties Union recently criticized Brownback for an “assault on women’s health.”
“In 2011, 5 bills limiting access to abortion services and affordable contraception were passed by the Kansas Legislature and signed by Governor Brownback and the legislature spent over 25 public hours on these bills,” MainStream Coalition board member Gail James said in a media advisory. “This divisive social agenda does not reflect the values or priorities of the majority of Kansans.”
For his part, Brownback on Monday denied wanting to limit the rights of women.
“Having three very good, strong daughters that are doing quite well, I — and I want them to have every opportunity and every possibility in this country and they’re going to have it,” he said.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/27/brownback-go-work-somewhere-else-if-you-want-contraception/
Watch this video from C-SPAN, broadcast Feb. 27, 2012.
"Yup, you heard it from the Horses Mouth, Only His Daughters Count!!!" =(By David Edwards
Monday, February 27, 2012 16:19 EST
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When the Virginia state sanctioned rape bill hit the news cycle, the media and the blogosphere went nuts, and the more than appropriate outrage over the pending bill was palpable. Unfortunately, what we have to remember on a daily basis is that Virginia was not some weird anomaly, it was not a bizarre exception, and the fight is not over...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=31180When the Virginia state sanctioned rape bill hit the news cycle, the media and the... more
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WATCH: The man cannot even say "transvaginal" because of his unease with the word "vagina." If you can't say it, you shouldn't be playing with it, and you most certainly should not be passing laws about it.
http://veracitystew.com/?p=31084WATCH: The man cannot even say "transvaginal" because of his unease with the... more
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The hundreds of protesters locked arms and silently lined the sidewalks and streets of Capitol Square. A state police helicopter circled and troopers joined Capitol police in monitoring the event...
http://veracitystew.com/?p=30780The hundreds of protesters locked arms and silently lined the sidewalks and streets of... more
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